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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Senator McCain mixes with Nazis?

Russian Jewish organizations in the
US are indignant about the conduct of Senator John McCain. The support
which he offered to a Ukrainian opposition leader, Oleg Tyagnibok, has
served as a reason for their criticism. The point is that the Ukrainian
opposition leader is well known for his nationalist, to be more exact,
anti-Semitic views.

In
both Ukraine and abroad he has gained renown for his politically
incorrect statements. Admiring the fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent
Army (UPA), he said that they had fought against the "moskali"
(Russians), the Germans, the Yids, and other scum of the earth. In many
countries the use of such words by a politician would mean the end of
his (her) career, and he (she) would be jailed. However, as it appears,
John McCain found nothing insulting in these words.

The Republican
Senator who arrived in Ukraine to support the participants of the Maidan
events and who was due to make a speech on the Independence Square in
Kiev, decided that there was nothing in these words to be ashamed of and
appeared on the same stage with the leader of the Ukrainian Svoboda
Party Oleg Tyagnibok. Such unscrupulousness in the choice of partners
has angered the Jewish organizations in the US, Israel and Russia. It
would be good to mention here that some time ago the Simon Wiesenthal
Foundation put Oleg Tyagnibok on the list of the top 10 anti-Semites.
Commenting on the situation, the head of the Holocaust Foundation Alla
Gerber says:

"I
know very well that this Ukrainian politician is really a monstrous
anti-Semite. He is a Nazi, not an anti-Semite. And I know very well what
anti-Semitic statements he made earlier. I am a normal person. I am not
anti-American, and I don’t have anything against America or any Western
country. I am a tolerant person. We know that the situation in Ukraine
is very difficult now and that they want to back the pro-EU protesters
but there are moments when one must stop. And this is exactly the
case."

Some
time ago, in response to Putin’s article that was published in "The New
York Times" McCain wrote an article for the newspaper "Pravda". At that
time political analysts rebuked the US senator, saying that he "had
bogged down" in the cold war epoch. They found it strange that he
continued to believe that "Pravda" was still the main newspaper in
Russia. In view of the above-mentioned, one can assume that McCain knows
very little about Ukraine and its politicians.

However, there is reason
to believe that McCain knew very well who Oleg Tyagnibok is. Surely,
this scandal will not be fraught with serious consequences for the US
Republican Senator, Chair of the Department of General Political
Sciences at the Faculty of Applied Politology of the Higher School of
Economics Leonid Polyakov says.

"He
is a very experienced politician and he will be able to explain why he
came into contact with Oleg Tyagnibok. Really, the leaders of the
"Svoboda" Party - Tyagnibok and Miroshnichenko - have been put on the
list of the top 10 Anti-Semites. Of course, John McCain is well aware of
that. However, his goal was to create a belt of political instability
around Russia. Therefore, it is absolutely clear why the Jewish
organizations were angered. The "real policy" principles McCain is
guided by is the prevailing factor here.

Europe’s
conduct is causing certain puzzlement though. Some time ago the
European Parliament passed a resolution, urging the Ukrainian parties
not to cooperate with the Svoboda Party. Even the members of the
European ultra -right organizations find its slogans excessively
radical. Suffice it to mention here that the Svoboda Party was expelled
from the Alliance of European National Movements. Despite that after the
supporters of closer ties between Ukraine and the European Union began
to stage rallies on the Independence Square in Kiev, European
politicians started to make visits to Kiev. And although they faced the
necessity to voice their support to Oleg Tyagnibok, none of them gave up
the idea.